Chapter 2489 — Yu Xiaoke's Worry
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The reason the pawnshop clerk had said so much was simply that he feared Wei Zhao's alchemy costs would be too high and the final sale price would end in a loss.
"Then what are the usual starting price and the final sale price?" Wei Zhao asked.
"There are records here. Let me find them and show you." The pawnshop clerk deftly flipped through a stack of documents and handed a list to Wei Zhao.
Yang Qiqi, however, was quite astonished. Seeing Wei Zhao actually bring out so many pills to auction, she thought he truly was a man of goods. If she had not desperately needed that blue crystal to trade for something to cure Xiao Jiu's illness, she would have wanted to demand all these things and take them back.
Wei Zhao had no mind to guess at Yang Qiqi's thoughts. Taking the list the pawnshop clerk handed him, he examined it carefully—and the moment he looked, he drew in a sharp breath of cold air!
Seeing Wei Zhao's instinctive look of shock, the pawnshop clerk smiled and said, "The hidden You family mass-produces pills. Their prices naturally have an advantage. If you feel it is not worthwhile, then do not sell."
He clearly assumed that the prices on the list looked too low in Wei Zhao's eyes.
But he had misunderstood in exactly the opposite way. Seeing the prices on the list, Wei Zhao secretly sighed at what a vast profit there was in the pill business. No wonder the hidden You family did not even deign to look at the medicine trade of the secular world—there was no comparing the two!
Here, the final sale price of a single pill was over ten million. That was simply an astronomical price! The twenty-odd pills Wei Zhao had brought would fetch over two hundred million. Where else could one find such a profitable business?
The materials needed for these pills were rare, true, but added together they were worth a few million at most. If Wei Zhao had the time, he could certainly have asked Old Man Wei to grow some at home. It was only that time did not permit, which was why he had demanded them from the You family.
After all, the materials for these pills were not especially rare. For first-grade and second-grade pills, the cost was actually not high at all. What was high was the frequent failure of the refining process!
Still, even this price did not match the sale value of that life-extending, toxin-expelling pill. Could that life-extending, toxin-expelling pill really be worth so much? Thinking of how the Kang family spared no effort to obtain the formula, Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised.
They already had the hidden You family as their backer, yet they still set their hearts on that formula. That alone was enough to show how precious the formula was—though Wei Zhao himself had never discovered anything precious or strange about it.
"This price is acceptable. No problem," Wei Zhao said directly after reading the list.
"Oh?" The pawnshop clerk was somewhat shocked, but he did not ask more. He nodded and said, "Very well. In that case, let us register it."
"All right," Wei Zhao nodded.
The formalities were completed quickly. Wei Zhao did not use his real name, only an auction number plate; that plate's serial number would also be used for auctioning items when the auction house opened, except that Wei Zhao had collected his in advance while others had not.
Yang Qiqi was not Yu Xiaoke. Under the eyes of the crowd, she had no chance at all to snatch the blue crystal from Wei Zhao's backpack. Even after Wei Zhao put the backpack on, she still had not found a suitable opportunity, and could only give up for the time being.
The group left the side courtyard. Wei Zhao noticed that Yu Xiaoke was nearby. Although she seemed to be looking at a stall not far away, Wei Zhao could tell her gaze drifted over from time to time, and he could not help but smile bitterly to himself.